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Asif Zardari pays tributes to Begum Nusrat Bhutto as “national asset”

Islamabad October 22, 2015: “Maadr-i-Jamhooriat Begum Nusrat Bhutto is a national asset who stands tall in contemporary history as an extraordinary woman in a long and tortuous struggle for democracy who continues to inspire democrats to lofty goals in life”.

This has been stated by former President Asif Ail Zardari in a message on the fourth death anniversary of Begum Nusrat Bhutto falling on Friday October 23.

Begum Sahiba personally led from the front a heroic struggle for the restoration of democracy in the country he said adding also “seldom before a woman endured so much in the course of democratic struggle”.

The scars of brutalization that she wore on her mind and body will continue to shine as glittering medallions, he said.

Begum Sahiba was the spouse of Pakistan’s first directly elected Prime Minister and the mother of twice elected and the Muslim World’s first directly elected Prime Minister. But no less she was also an inspiring leader who led the struggle for democracy from the front, he said.

On the occasion of her fourth death anniversary while we pay her homage let us also rededicate ourselves to the principles for which the Begum Sahiba struggled all her life and suffered so much.